117 Quotes by Kelly Corrigan

As Voltaire said: “Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

Knowing people takes time, which we all swear we don’t have, or some mitigating circumstance like being caught in an elevator, or war.

Minds don’t rest; they reel and wander and fixate and roll back and reconsider because it’s like this, having a mind. Hearts don’t idle; they swell and constrict and break and forgive and behold because it’s like this, having a heart. Lives don’t last; they thrill and confound and circle and overflow and disappear because it’s like this, having a life.

I try to be one of the exceptional people who can live with the complexity of things, who are at peace with the unknown and the unknowable, who leave all the cages open. I tell myself: There’s so much that you don’t know, you can’t know, you aren’t ever going to know.

I envy my dad and his faith. I envy all people who have someone to beseech, who know where they’re going, who sleep under the fluffy white comforter of belief.

There’s hardly a positive intention associated with no. Except self-preservation.

But now I see there’s no such thing as “a” woman, “one” woman. There are dozens inside every one of them. I probably should have figured this out sooner, but what child can see the women inside her mom, what with all the Motherness blocking out everything else?

Makes you wonder what else people might tell you if you just keep asking questions.

He loved me the way only a nineteen-year old can- suddenly and deliriously.